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enClaude Sitton, 'Dean Of The Race Beat,' Dies At 89http://wncw.org/post/claude-sitton-dean-race-beat-dies-89
It may be that Claude Fox Sitton so outraged the white Southern segregationists he reported on throughout the civil rights movement because, by all appearances, he could have been standing beside them instead of writing about them in the <em>New York Times</em>.<p>Known as "the dean of the race beat," Sitton, who died Tuesday, reported on many of the seminal moments in the early stages of the civil rights movement.Wed, 11 Mar 2015 19:08:00 +0000Karen Grigsby Bates45651 at http://wncw.orgA 'Black Tax' At Charlotte's Ritz-Carlton?http://wncw.org/post/black-tax-charlottes-ritz-carlton
A Charlotte news station <a href="http://www.wbtv.com/story/28244221/customers-upset-with-ritz-lobby-lounge-ciaa-service-charge">reported</a> on Monday that the Ritz-Carlton, one of prosperous uptown Charlotte's swankiest hotels, added what looks suspiciously like a black tax to the lobby bar tabs of patrons in town last week for the CIAA, the popular mega-tournament for basketball teams at historically black colleges and universities from Pennsylvania to North Carolina.<p>Charlotte resident<strong> </strong>Patrice Wright and her husband Tony stopped into the Ritz's Lobby Bar as they often doThu, 05 Mar 2015 20:56:00 +0000Karen Grigsby Bates45449 at http://wncw.orgA 'Black Tax' At Charlotte's Ritz-Carlton?In Hollywood, MLK Delivered A Lesser-Known Speech That Resonates Today http://wncw.org/post/hollywood-mlk-delivered-lesser-known-speech-resonates-today
Shortly after winning the Nobel Peace Prize and coming back from Selma, Ala., where residents were protesting discrimination and repeated police brutality, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.Thu, 26 Feb 2015 08:45:00 +0000Karen Grigsby Bates45157 at http://wncw.orgIn Hollywood, MLK Delivered A Lesser-Known Speech That Resonates Today Demand For Audio Books Keeps Penguin Random House Recordinghttp://wncw.org/post/demand-audio-books-keeps-penguin-random-house-busy
<div class="fullattribution">Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.<img src="http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Demand+For+Audio+Books+Keeps+Penguin+Random+House+Recording&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxODc0NzU5MDEyMTgyMDUxMzlkN2IzMw004)"/></div><p>Thu, 25 Dec 2014 09:52:00 +0000Karen Grigsby Bates42921 at http://wncw.orgThe Whiteness Project: Facing Race In A Changing Americahttp://wncw.org/post/whiteness-project-facing-race-changing-america
The voices in the<em> Whiteness Project</em> vary by gender, age and income, but they all candidly express what it is like to be white in an increasingly diverse country.<p>"I don't feel that personally I've benefited from being white. That's because I grew up relatively poor," a participant shared.Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:24:00 +0000Karen Grigsby Bates42799 at http://wncw.orgThe Whiteness Project: Facing Race In A Changing AmericaBlack Fraternities And Sororities Split On Protest Policyhttp://wncw.org/post/black-fraternities-and-sororities-split-protest-policy
Thousands of Americans gathered in Washington, D.C. Saturday for the 'Justice for All' rally. The demonstration was to protest the police shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, as well as decisions not to indict white police officers in the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. and Eric Garner on Staten Island, N.Y.Sat, 13 Dec 2014 21:18:00 +0000Karen Grigsby Bates42532 at http://wncw.orgBlack Fraternities And Sororities Split On Protest Policy'The Banh Mi Handbook': A Guide To A Viet-French Sandwichhttp://wncw.org/post/banh-mi-handbook-guide-viet-french-sandwich
Some kids know they want to be doctors or pilots or professional sports players— Andrea Nguyen knew by the time she was 10 she wanted to be a sandwich maker. She says she's been making sandwiches and fooling around with the recipes and the ingredients since elementary school.<p>The sandwich she fell for first and that she still loves the most? <em>Banh mi</em>.Sat, 29 Nov 2014 21:57:00 +0000Karen Grigsby Bates42069 at http://wncw.org'The Banh Mi Handbook': A Guide To A Viet-French SandwichA Black Cosmetic Company Sells, Or Sells Out?http://wncw.org/post/black-cosmetic-company-sells-or-sells-out
<p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qTomeFFe9I</p>Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:48:00 +0000Karen Grigsby Bates40860 at http://wncw.orgA Black Cosmetic Company Sells, Or Sells Out?The Look Of Power: How Women Have Dressed For Successhttp://wncw.org/post/look-power-how-women-have-dressed-success
Remember power suits? At the same time women were entering the corporate workplace in large numbers, the power suit began to pop up. It was usually a long jacket with the kind of big, padded shoulders Joan Crawford made famous, a straight skirt and, often, a floppy silk bow tie that Little Lord Fauntleroy would have been at home in. The 1980s power suit was designed to ignore a woman's shape so it didn't hinder her mobility as she worked her way up the corporate ladder.<p>You saw it on Diane Keaton in the 1987 movie <em>Baby Boom</em>.Mon, 20 Oct 2014 08:23:00 +0000Karen Grigsby Bates40723 at http://wncw.orgThe Look Of Power: How Women Have Dressed For SuccessComer Cottrell, Creator Of The People's Jheri Curl, Dies At 82http://wncw.org/post/comer-cottrell-creator-peoples-jheri-curl-dies-82
<p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9zC8o63IBU</p><p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ0WFzxPlKI</p>Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:35:00 +0000Karen Grigsby Bates40466 at http://wncw.orgComer Cottrell, Creator Of The People's Jheri Curl, Dies At 82